Genocide

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A War to End All Wars....

At this writing, it is close to 60 years beyond that most appalling wound we dealt ourselves. One would think that we would have been satiated in our willingness to conduct genocide, or the massive slaughter of persons, often innocent, mostly based upon real or perceived characteristics, and always in an aim to 'take what they have' and gain power and wealth, without regard to suffering or consequence. Since the Shoah, though, we have conducted as the inhabitants of this earth, which God gave from the beginning to be tended and cared for, literally countless genocides. Each has taken, like the Shoah millions of lives, and each has accomplished little of what the aggressors intended. We have seen the continuation of the Shoah in the cruel persecutions of the Ustachi, in the Serb-Croatia conflicts. We have seen political slaughters in the reign of Ceaucescu, and mass killings of Pot in Cambodia. Rwanda has emerged as a 'killing field' and wars have not ceased. The Crisis in the Middle East has continued, with all nations focused, knowing that in volatile circumstances, it could give birth to Armaggedon.

And we still have not learned.

The next generation will not have the benefit of eyewitnesses. They will however make the decisions that lead to the fate of Earth. While this section is under development, the links to the right provide valuable descriptions of the state of the World now, in serious crisis. We repeat constantly the rhetoric about those who do not learn from history being doomed to repeat it, but we never do learn, and we alway repeat, each time suffering greater and greater consequences, which the World cannot survive.

This is the message of "Shoah Education". Change does not come in logical arguments, but in heart changes. Mere education will avail little: our carnal nature will reach for a weapon before the Torah or the Bible. The best we will hope for, is a time of peace, and a generation or more that will not see even worse than the Shoah.

We know, though too, that God has revealed that eventually we will turn ourselves over to the worst of Kings, a tyrant who will make Hitler pale.

A writer who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto was once asked if he though Hitler was a beast, or dog. He replied, no, quite the contrary, that a dog can exhibit 'comfort', but Hitler, rather than a 'beast' was the consummate 20th Century Man. Ruthless, amoral, angry and focused, Hitler was the beginning of the Gospel of Self, of a new soul-less humanism.

The Choice begins with the individual. We can educate, we cannot change hearts: some will use holocaust and tolerance education and work for peace, others will learn and use it for war. We all make the first choice.